Cooking Up Dungeness Crabs

Here's were it's a little bit exciting. I wanted to show my daughter Fiona how the crab goes for live to the plate.

Getting these big strong rascals out of the box and into the pot is a little challenging, as you can see. And these guys are bigguns! Could barley fit 3 in a 5 gallon kettle.

I keep it pretty simple. Nothing more than liberal amounts of Old Bay seasoning in the boil. Once the crabs are in the pot, return to boil and boil for 20 minutes. Once they are done, it's simple to crack the top shell off and clean out the innards under tollerably hot water from the sink.

TIP: use a fondu folk rather like an old school can opener to open up the various sections of the crab. Simply pry open after cutting open this way, and with just a little practice you'll get a great slab o' crab meat every time! Dunk that in some melted butter and OH YEAH! Sweat, juicy crab delight!

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[DovetailFox]

i'll never let go Jack, i'll never let go!!

[zienkai]

Time-saving tip: You could have thrown them in when they were locked together!

[ak7wyf]

or why not throw them in together? i aint a genius but wow.

[ak7wyf]

use yer hands u wussy.wtf?

[thedude44963]

@stanleyn7 i honestley do not see what your trying to say cuh i still dont see where race plays a factor

[stanleyn7]

@thedude44963 you need to study a little more & working on your spelling little fella! Most people in the world still are NOT removed from the food sources today as most people are still not little cubicle living suburbanites.

[thedude44963]

@stanleyn7 what lol bigget much everyone is far removed from their food dumbass haha epic rasist fail

[thedude44963]

dude you stress the meat so much

[stanleyn7]

White people are so removed from their food sources these days.

[xSouthParkFanx]

@imported09 Its FOOD you jackass. Go back to PETA you hippy.

[crazyboutmo]

I feel sooooo bad 4 the crabs :'( I could never do that